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Finding Farmland For Your Farm

Farmbrite

Finding the best farmland for your new farm involves several key steps to ensure you choose a location that meets your needs and goals. In this article, we're going to cover some ways to find farmland, questions to ask when at a potential farm location, and other tips and tricks.

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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

Songbird Farm (Photo credit: Jenny McNulty) Maine had been spreading what is called sludge on its farmland and fields since the 1980s. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer in Maine was documented thanks to licensing requirements to apply biosolids. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Understanding the COMET-Planner Tool

ATTRA

This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

Modern Farmer

Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute. A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland. full_link LEARN MORE Find out why climate change has intensified fertilizer runoff.

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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute. A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland. The counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow.

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The USDA Plan to Better Measure Agriculture’s Impact on the Climate Crisis

Civil Eats

It is important that we embrace the notion of climate-smart agriculture and forestry, but to do that, we’ve got to get the science and the innovation right. resembling commodity agriculture systems based on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We have to have accurate, reliable measurements of the impact.

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

However, the inclusion of “precision irrigation and fertilization” broadly as an example of practices that may be eligible for a discount is concerning. 7110, 7113, 7213). Creates an Organic Agriculture Research Coordinator within the Office of the Chief Scientist (Sec. 11103, 11208).

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